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Ardipithecus ramidus is the earliest hominid found so far and was discovered in
Aramis, in the Middle Awash region of Ethiopia in 1994 by Tim White and his two colleagues, Gen Suwa and Berhane Asfaw.
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Until recently, the earliest known hominine for which sufficient diagnostic anatomical evidence was available was
Australopithecus afarensis, fossils of which have been found in
Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya, and most of which date between 2.9 and 3.9 million years.
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An Australian anatomist at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, named
Raymond Dart, discovered the first australopithecine in November 1924 and published his interpretation of it in the journal
Nature in February 1925.
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HomoErectus - complexType in {http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology}
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The first findings of
Homo erectus fossils were made in the late 19th and early 20th century in
Indonesia and China.
HomoErgaster - complexType in {http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology}
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HomoHabilis - complexType in {http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology}
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This species is often also referred to as "Archaic Homo Sapiens".
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HomoRudolfensis - complexType in {http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology}
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In October 1993, an international team of paleontologists discovered a partial hominine mandible near
Lake Malawi.
HomoSapiens - complexType in {http://www.geocities.com/palaeoanthropology}
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Population movements such as the colonisation of the Americas have occurred many times in human prehistory, and they inevitably muddy what might otherwise be a clear relationship between body shape and climate, and its change through time.
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